Actor Tom Hardy has flipped the script and stunned hip-hop followers along with his lyrical expertise on his debut rap album below the alias Frankie Pulitzer. The mission, Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer, has everybody asking, who knew Bane had bars?
On Aug. 28, 2026, Hardy delivered his collaborative mission with hip-hop supergroup Czarface—consisting of rap/manufacturing duo 7L & Esoteric and Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck—known as Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer. The 15-track assortment shouldn’t be a conceit mission for the 48-year-old thespian; it is an actual hip-hop album with Hardy as Frankie, spitting gritty bars and rewindable punchlines over some head-nodding, boom-bap manufacturing.
Nonetheless, followers have been reacting to Hardy’s bars and masked-up look as Frankie within the video for “Mad Know-how” that includes options Methodology Man. Within the visible, which you’ll view beneath, Frankie wears a black jacket and rocks a black-and-white zig-zag face masks (or balaclava) that covers his face. Over a downing piano-groove, Hardy makes an specific nod to Kathy Bates of the 1990 flick Distress as he spits, “You sh*t for brains, no title lame, that bites like Cujo/I would quite masturbate to Kathy Bates than hear you circulate/And , that distress, it loves firm.”
As for the masks, Hardy leans into his disguised imagery on the Czarface mission by invoking his iconic position of Batman’s brawny nemesis Bane. On the haunting “Grim-Visaged Conflict,” Hardy channels his signature Bane vocals to ship the “winter of our discontent” monologue from William Shakespeare’s historical past play Richard III, exhibiting that his masked villain persona isn’t too distant.
Whereas Hardy’s look with Czarface could have stunned some individuals, this is not the primary time Hardy has collaborated with the group. In 2021, the actor made his debut look as Frankie Pulitzer on Czarface’s Good Guys, Dangerous Guys EP. Then in 2024 he teamed up with Methodology Man on Czarface’s tune “Knull & Void.”
Watch Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer’s “Mad Know-how” Video That includes Methodology Man
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